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We live in a Materials World.

Everything we use is made from materials extracted from the earth. Yet, our current way of making and using most materials follows a linear model: take, make, and dispose. This unsustainable approach is pushing the planet’s limits—if our production and consumption behaviours remain unchanged, we would need 2.75 worlds to meet our demands. But we only have one. To secure a sustainable future, we must transition to a circular materials world, where we minimise the extraction of raw materials and maximise the reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling of existing materials. Achieving this transformation requires innovations in mindsets, technologies, business models, and systems.

Join us for an insightful discussion about the challenges of our current materials system and the opportunities for transitioning towards a circular and sustainable materials world. This event brings together leading experts from industry and academia to inspire actionable change.

Together, let’s reimagine the future of our materials world.

If you care about where your 'material goods’ come from and how we can all play a part in protecting the planet, this event is for you!

Join us in person on campus for the chance to network in person with our academics and industry speakers.

Speakers

Dr Miying Yang (Host & Co-Chair)

Reader in Sustainability, 果酱视频官网

Dr Miying Yang is a Reader in Sustainability at Cranfield School of Management. She earned her PhD from the Centre for Industrial Sustainability at the University of Cambridge and specialises in advancing sustainability and the circular economy through digitalisation and business model innovation. She has received several research grants from various UK research councils, including EPSRC, ESRC and Royal Society. Her research outputs in this field have won four paper awards in international journals and conferences.

Dr Yang actively collaborates with industry partners to address practical sustainability challenges and is committed to translating research into actionable solutions. Her work includes developing the Sustainable Value Analysis Tool, a method adopted by numerous companies to identify opportunities for sustainable value creation throughout the product lifecycle.

At Cranfield, she leads the "Leading Sustainable Business" module for the Executive MBA programme, equipping future leaders with the tools to drive sustainable change. She frequently contributes to workshops and discussions on topics such as digital technologies for sustainable manufacturing, demonstrating her passion for bridging academia and industry

Professor Mark Jolly (Co-Chair)

Professor of Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing, 果酱视频官网

In 1995 he set up and managed the Casting Centre (CC) at University of Birmingham. For the first 3 years seed-corn funding from ERDF of £0.5 M was used to support local and UK companies within the foundry sector and supply chain. He developed the CC as a business and was managing 6 staff, controlled the finances, developed contracts and marketing and sales materials. The CC delivered over 120 contracts in its 10 year life. The contracts ranged from one week to two years in duration, thus suiting both SMEs and Large Size Enterprises (LSEs). During this time he was instrumental in setting up and running part of the Luxfer ATC, a collaboration of 5 universities, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Southampton and Warwick to support the Luxfer group research.

From 1999 Professor Jolly has managed 14 EPSRC grants (10 as the PI), including 3 (~£1.65 M pre-FEC) under the Materials Processing for Engineering Applications (MaPEA) call; all had multiple industrial partners and one was also with Swansea University. He was PI for an EU FP7 Industry Academia Pathways to Progress (IAPPS) technology transfer project of ~1.7 M with one industry partner (Deputy-Synthes J&J) entitled 'Development of Foundry Casting Methods for Cost-Effective Manufacture of Medical Implants' (MEDCAST).

He has led 6 KTP projects and over 50 Industry sponsored contracts outside of the Castings Centre. As well as the KTP projects, Professor Jolly has also run and been involved in other technology/knowledge transfer projects and networks in the UK and EU including MASMEQA, SKISOFOT, VIF and 'Blast from the Past' (an EPSRC PPA project).

Who should attend?

This is an open event to 果酱视频官网 staff, students, businesses and sustainability enthusiasts alike.

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